Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
With respect to buildings which are to be newly erected the following provisions shall have effect, namely:— (a) The erection of any such building on either side of a new street may be disapproved by the Commissioner, unless and until such new street has been levelled, metalled or paved, sewered and drained to the satisfaction of the Commissioner 314[and the drainage betterment charges as fixed by the Commissioner, from time to time, have been paid.] (b) The erection of any such building in any part of the City in which the position and direction of the streets likely to be required in the future, have not yet been laid down or determined shall, with the assent of the Standing Committee, be disapproved by the Commissioner, unless the site proposed for such building is in the opinion of the Commissioner, such as, with reference to the positions occupied by the buildings, if any, already existing in the neighbourhood, will admit of the construction in the future of one or more new streets convenient for the occupiers of all the buildings in the neighbourhood and for the purposes of drainage, water supply and ventilation: Provided that any person whose building is so disapproved may, by written notice to the Commissioner, require that the position and direction of the future streets in the vicinity of his intended building be forthwith laid down and determined, and if such requisition be not complied with within six months from the date thereof, may, subject to all other provisions of this Act applicable thereto, proceed with the erection of his building.